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Senior Security EngineerTwilio

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About Us:

Twilio is powering the future of business communications, providing a platform for building modern, communications?enabled applications - light, cloud-based, scalable, and user experience focused.
Nearly 150,000 developers have signed up to be a part of this disruption, building applications for security, privacy, and fraud prevention; customer service and help desk support; sales communications; marketing and lead management; business process and logistics; and business communications and collaboration.
Twilio customers include great brands like airbnb, eBay, Hulu, Intuit, LinkedIn, Quora, Sony, SurveyMonkey, Trulia, WalmartLabs, and ZenDesk.
Twilio is energizing the $1.3 trillion telecom market. Come help modernize an enormous industry with software.
About the Job:

Twilio is growing exponentially and we are looking for a security engineer to develop a security roadmap, establish organization-wide practices and work with our engineering team and customers to evolve Twilio's security posture.
We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer who is interested in building the next generation of platform systems to support global distribution of Twilio Services.
You will receive exposure to the unique set of challenges that come from scaling a global service that has to run at 100% availability. You will identify and build expertise on what it means to operate securely on and as a cloud service.
The ability to work across multiple parts of the organization is essential for this role, you should be comfortable talking with engineers and business teams about security. The ability to convey and evangelize security needs should also extend to talk with customers and prospects when necessary.
Responsibilities:

Work on the Twilio Platform team to evangelize and educate on security and our approaches to it.
Identify risk and vulnerabilities in our organization then work to mitigate these through systems and repeatable automated practices.
Work with Product management on prioritization and with engineering teams on technical approaches to improve or fix security issues.
Twilio provides hosted carrier-class phone and messaging services and our customer must have confidence in our approaches to security. You will be able to convey complex security problems in terms that security professionals and our customers can easily understand.
Take personal responsibility for the security for the Twilio platform, always aiming to improve our readiness against threats.
Requirements:

You are proficient in all aspects of information security principles and practices, maintaining a current awareness of the industry, and you are comfortable discussing pros and cons of different approaches.
You can explain in detail common attack vectors such as buffer overflows, SQL injection, CSRF, XSS, etc. to both software developers and product management.
You have a solid understanding of advanced security protocols and standards (encryption, signing, key-exchange, etc.)
You have detailed experience with software architectures and the application of security requirements.
You are proficient in one or more programming languages and have experience with multiple web frameworks.
You have hands on experience conducting manual and automated penetration tests and code audits both manually and with automated tools.
You have experience with security practices from web services, SaaS and in high transaction systems.
You focus on continuous improvement and can describe the approaches you have taken.
Hands on. Passionate. Persistent. Creative. You get things done -- you are a doer.
Bonus Points:

You have given industry talks or presented papers on security. Please send us links!
You love designing and building security solutions for complex systems.
Experience with automating security testing within an agile development environment.
Experience with moving organizations through various compliance initiatives (PCI, ISO27001, etc.)
Bachelors (preferably Masters) degree in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
Open source. You do it. You dig it.
Perks:

Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance
An Amazon Kindle, $30/month to spend on books and a Twilio track jacket after demoing your first Twilio app in front of the company!
Pre-tax commuter benefits
Catered lunches and a weekly team dinner featuring invited technology and entrepreneurial speakers
Excellent gear (?We ? Apple computers and big monitors ? two if you need ?em?);
A strong belief in life/work balance

Twilio is the developer platform for communications. With Twilio, developers and businesses make communications contextual by embedding voice, video, messaging and authentication directly into their software. We are re-inventing the communications market, taking it from its 150-year legacy in hardware to its future in software.
Twilio has more than 700,000 registered developers. Industry disruptors including Uber, Box and DocuSign and enterprises like Nordstrom, Coca-Cola, Walmart and Home Depot trust Twilio to power and innovate their communications at global scale.
Twilio is recognized as one of the 10 Fastest Growing Companies in San Francisco, one of The Bay Area's 10 Most InDemand Startups, and has over 400 employees with offices in San Francisco, Mountain View, New York City, Bogota, Tallinn, Dublin, London and Hong Kong.